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June 1967	Directive [from Mao Zedong] Regarding Comrade Yao Wenyuan’s Visit to Albania Mao reminds Comrade Yao Wenyuan to remain humble on his upcoming trip to Albania for the sake of China's Red Guards.
June 1967	[Mao Zedong's] Revisions for a Speech That Chinese Red Guard Delegates [Will Deliver] in Albania Mao deletes and revises phrases in a speech that Chinese Red Guards would subsequently deliver on a trip to Albania.
January 28, 1967	Directive [from Mao Zedong] Regarding Foreign Friends' Participation in the Cultural Revolution Mao allows revolutionary foreigners to participate in the Cultural Revolution.
May 1, 1967	[Mao Zedong's] Conversation with Distinguished Guests from Albania during the "May First" [Labour or International Workers' Day] Holiday In a meeting with visitors from Albania, Mao explains that China needs to "criticize, struggle, and achieve the 'Three Combinations' [for reorganizing the government] as soon as possible.
May 1, 1967	Remarks from [Mao Zedong's] Audience with an Albanian Military Delegation In a meeting with Albanian military officials, Mao explains his reasons for starting the Cultural Revolution. He emphasizes that the purpose is to solve current problems in the world and dig out the roots of revisionism [within the Chinese Communist Party].
February 3, 1967	[Mao Zedong's] Conversation with [Hysni] Kapo and [Beqir] Balluku Mao explains that he started the Cultural Revolution to purge revisionist and bourgeois elements from the Chinese Communist Party in an open and comprehensive way.
January 17, 1967	[Mao Zedong] and Foreign Guests Discuss How to Read Big-Character Posters Mao explains that not all big-character posters are revolutionary ones. Readers should understand that the posters will present different sides of various issues.
March 10, 1970	Embassy of the GDR in the PR China, 'First Assessment of the Course of the Chinese Leadership “Preparation for a Scenario of War and a Scenario of Disaster, Everything for the People”' This document contains the East German (GDR) Embassy in China’s summary and preliminary evaluation of Chinese foreign policy aimed at achieving super power status, domestic militarization in China, and efforts to foster political unity around Maoist ideology.
October 13, 1973	Verbatim Transcript of the Fourth Meeting between Prime Minister Trudeau and Premier Zhou Enlai In their final talk, Trudeau and Zhou Enlai discuss Sino-Canadian trade, the Cultural Revolution, and the status of Chinese in Canada.
October 11, 1973	Meeting of Prime Minister Trudeau and Premier Zhou Enlai at the State Guest House (Diaoyutai) Zhou Enlai offers Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau an extensive history of the Chinese Civil War and Chinese Revolution. Zhou also comments on China's foreign policy positions toward and views on the Soviet Union, nuclear war, Bangladesh, revisionism, and great power hegemony, among other topics.